The Dog of the South
by Charles Portis
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1585679313
- ISBN 13
- 9781585679317
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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€6.06€4.25
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About This Item
New York, NY: The Overlook Press, 1999 Overlook Press, New York. c1999. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 11th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light edge bumping; light toning to pages. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 266 pp 8vo. Ray Midge’s wife has run off with a man named Dupree, and they have stolen his car and his credit cards in the process. This is complicated enough, but there are further entanglements. Dupree is his wife’s ex-husband. He and Midge are friends, of a kind. Also Dupree is out of jail on a bail bond that Ray has helped arrange. With reluctance, Ray determines he must set off from his comfortable home in Little Rock and venture across the Mexican border to Honduras in an effort to set matters straight. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016781
- Title
- The Dog of the South
- Author
- Charles Portis
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1585679313
- ISBN 13
- 9781585679317
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Charles Portis, humor, absurd fiction, humorous fiction, Mexico, Arkansas, 1963 Buick Special, The Dog of the South, Ray Midge, credit card theft, Honduras, Norma Midge, Charles Portis' America
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.